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Principal Pipings Summer 2020, Vol. 76, Issue 1

Principal Pipings November 2020, Vol. 76, Issue 4

Dean’s Message

Hello AGO Friends,

I hope you were able to tune in to our chapter’s first-ever

livestream and hear Jillian Gardner’s outstanding program last

week. If you weren’t able to view it during the actual

performance, the video is still up on the chapter’s Facebook

page. Just go to facebook.com/AGOLexington/ and scroll

down to Posts. Where you see “AGO Lexington KY was live” (on

November 6), click on the image to start the video. (And while

you’re at it, if you haven’t already “liked” our chapter’s FB page

you can do that too!) Our thanks to Robert Whitaker and

Gabrielle Manion at Cathedral of Christ the King for hosting the

event, to Brian Hunt for recording, and to Bill Johnson for all the

technical expertise that allowed for our livestream, which was

watched not only by our chapter members but also by some of

Jillian’s choir members in Huntsville, AL and by her mother in

upstate New York!

Our foray into the virtual world will continue next month with

our first-ever virtual Christmas Pipes member recital. Here’s your

chance to showcase what you’ve been perfecting for your

Advent and Christmas services. Look for all the details

elsewhere in this newsletter, and be a part of this fun event.

Meanwhile, “the Season” is almost upon us. Time to go

practice! Stay well,

Jane

Concerts

In this Issue

2 Upcoming AGO

Events

3 Announcements

4 Member News

5 History Corner

6 Portable Pipes

7 Concerts

8 Sponsors

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Your Executive Committee has come up with a terrific slate of chapter events which we hope

we will be able to hold, particularly during this, our 75th anniversary year. Watch your upcoming

chapter newsletters for updates on these and other area programs as we continue to cope

with Covid-19 and its impact on the arts.

Week of Dec. 14 VIRTUAL EVENT: Christmas Pipes Member Recital For more information please read the Announcement on the following

page. We hope you will join us!

Friday, 02.05.21

The Marcelo Gianini concert has been canceled due to the

Coronavirus pandemic.

Saturday, 02.27.21

9:30am Pedals, Pipes and Pizza Central Christian Church (DOC), Lexington

Saturday, 03.06.21

9:30am Choral and Organ Reading Session First Christian Church (DOC), Winchester

Saturday, 04.17.21

12:00pm Elizabeth George, Director of Member Engagement and Chapter

Development, AGO National Headquarters Location TBA

Friday, 05.21.21

7:00pm Katie Minion Scheetz Recital Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington

Upcoming AGO Events

For inclusion in the newsletter calendar for local music events, please contact Lynn Vera at

[email protected] by the 20th of the month prior to the publication date. Due to space

limitations, events will be listed for the current and following month. You can find events

beyond that timeframe on our website, www.agolexington.org.

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Announcements

DECEMBER VIDEO EVENT: Christmas Pipes Member Recital

CHRISTMAS PIPES GOES VIRTUAL!

Our annual Christmas Pipes member recital was scheduled to be held at

Southern Hills United Methodist Church on their new Randall Dyer organ. But due

to the pandemic, the church is not currently hosting any outside groups. So we

have decided instead that it would be fun to do the recital virtually, relying

heavily on Lynn Vera’s video expertise to bring our members and their various

instruments to our homes. Here’s how to participate:

Contact James Humlong ([email protected]) and let him know what

piece or pieces you would like to play (around 6-7 minutes for each performer),

and some information on the organ on which you will be playing (builder,

number of manuals and ranks, location, and anything else that you think is

interesting). In order to satisfy the requirements for our copyright licensing

agreement, we will also need publisher and copyright date of your piece if it is

not in the public domain. The deadline to provide all this information is

November 23rd.

Once your piece is perfected, you will need to video it (if you don’t know how to

do this, please let Jane Johnson know and we will find a way to help you). The

preferred video format is .mp4, but if you don’t have this capability contact Lynn

([email protected]). Since the video files will be too large to email, Lynn will

set up a link where you can upload your completed video. The deadline to do

this is Dec. 7th, but earlier is always better! Please contact Lynn when you’re

ready to upload your video file and she’ll email you the link to do so.

([email protected])

Once the “Christmas Pipes” video is completed, Lynn will give us the link to the

Members Recital and you can share some Christmas cheer with your friends and

relatives, too! So please consider being a part of this fun event! Merry Merry!

Recital Cancellations at Campbellsville University and in

Lexington

Due to the pandemic the remainder of the noon organ recitals for the 2020-2021

program year have been canceled. The February Marcelo Gianini recital at the

Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington has also been canceled.

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We are pleased to report that Clif Cason is recovering after he and his bike were hit by a

car that rolled through a stop sign. Clif now has a brace and seven screws in his right

leg. He says his goal of learning the complete Bach organ works will need to wait until

2021. Meanwhile, he’s rolling around the house in an office chair with wheels. We hope

you heal swiftly, Clif. We are looking forward to hearing that Bach!

If you have any member news that you would like to report, please email it to

Jane Johnson: [email protected]

Member News

Maxine Thévenot Virtual Concert on November 15 at 4pm

This Sunday, November 15th at 4:00pm, Christ Church Cathedral hosts Maxine

Thévenot in an online organ concert presentation. Maxine is the Director of

Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

where she is the first female Canon Musician at an Episcopal Cathedral.

Acclaimed for her ‘solid musicianship...technical security and poise’ by The

American Organist and for her ‘beautiful registration...’ by The Diapason

Magazine, Maxine has performed concerts around the world for her skillful,

musical playing, and inventive programming. Maxine is an advocate of new

music and has premiered many of these works.

Sunday’s program will be presented from the

Cathedral of St. John on the expansive 65-rank

Reuter organ (https://stjohnsabq.org/music/the-

reuter-organ/). Her concert will include two

works by contemporary composers, Denis

Bédard and Barrie Cabena. She will also present

pieces by Sweelinck and Buxtehude, ending

with Vierne’s Carillon de Westminster. Maxine

will be including program notes on the pieces.

Please visit Christ Church Cathedral’s website

at www.ccclex.org/music for the concert link on Sunday. Hope you can join

this special online concert!

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by Dr. Ted Gentry, Lexington AGO Chapter Historian

Finances constitute one of the most striking differences between now and the

early years of our chapter. Typical treasury balances in the late 1940s were

less than $30. By the early fifties, balances usually ranged from $50-100. In

December, 1950, the chapter’s annual dinner at the Lafayette Hotel was paid

for by the chapter. The cost for all meals was $28. We don’t know how many

attended, but most chapter meetings drew 10-15 members in those years, so

the cost was probably a little more than two dollars per person. In 1951 the

regional chairman, J. Henry Francis, requested a suggested donation of $5 for

regional contest expenses, an amount approved at the December meeting.

On March 2, 1952, Oswald Ragatz played a recital at Broadway Christian

Church for a fee of $75. The following morning members were asked to

donate one dollar each to attend his workshop. In January, 1954, annual

membership dues increased from four to five dollars. Adjusted for inflation, $5

would equal about $48 today, far less than the $105 for a current regular

membership.

Several of our current chapter customs have their

roots in decisions made at meetings in the early

1950s. In January, 1952, the Lexington Chapter

initiated the tradition of attempting a joint program

with the Louisville Chapter. We can’t find

confirmation that a collaborative event actually

came to fruition from those early discussions, but

several members did carpool to Louisville for a Virgil

Fox concert. In 1953 two changes were officially

adopted that continue to the present. At the April

meeting, members discussed ways to include choir

directors into guild membership, thus expanding the

mission of the guild beyond organ music alone. The

next month, the chapter voted to have sub-deans

automatically move into the office of dean when

the current dean’s term expires. Though it is no

longer automatic, it is a custom that we have often

followed through the past half century.

The historic Lafayette Hotel is now

serving as City Hall.

Nyttend, Public domain, via

Wikimedia Commons

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A Virtual Concert Series for our 75th Anniversary Year

During this time of social isolation many of us are sorely missing live organ performances. Every month

during our 75th Anniversary program year we’ll present a set of video links of organ performances

selected according to various themes. To watch the videos do a Ctrl + Click on each blue link.

~~ “Harvest” + “Giving Thanks” ~~

“Now Thank We All Our God” by J.S. Bach (arr. Virgil Fox) Performed by Sean Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xQdHu3sQtU

“Come, Ye Thankful People, Come” (ST. GEORGE’S WINDSOR) by Edwin T. Childs

Performed by Brenda Portman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9kOepTvCU

“Praise and Thanksgiving” (BUNESSON) by Dale Wood Performed by Tandy Reussner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcJzSRR9rAs

“Thanks Be to Thee” (“Dank sei der Herr”) by G. F. Handel Performed by Diane Bish on the organ of Gloucester Cathedral, England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG3jG_wHvPI

“Toccata on ‘Old Hundredth’ “ by Robert Hebble Performed by Doug Marshall on the Marshall & Ogletree Opus 5 in the Oratory at

Ave Maria University near Naples, FL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJW7rBvLFc

December’s themes are “Advent”, “Christmas” and “December Holidays”. Please email your

submissions for the December newsletter to Lynn Vera at [email protected].

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Concerts

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Sponsors

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During this challenging season of Covidtide we all need a chuckle now and then!

Do you have a good one for the next newsletter? Please email it to Lynn Vera at

[email protected].

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